The 18th Earl of Perth 1935-2023

The 18th Earl of Perth died at his home, 27 March, 2023. He was 87.

He was Earl of Perth (Peerage of Scotland, cr 1605), and Viscount Strathallan (Peerage of Scotland, cr 1686).

John Eric Drummond was born 7 July, 1935, son of the 17th Earl of Perth, PC (1907-2002), of Stobhall, Perth, and his wife the former Nancy Seymour Fincke (1911-96), of New York, USA, and succeeded to the peerages on his father's death, 25 November, 2002.

He married firstly, 7 January, 1963 (div 1972), Margaret Anne Gordon, daughter of Robin Gordon; and married 2ndly, in 1988, Mrs Marion Verity Grey Elliot (born 1947, nee Eton), daughter of Alfred John Douglass Eton (1908-1996), and his wife the former Renee Rosena Gadd (1916-2003), and leaves issue from his first marriage, two sons James and Robert, and was predeceased by a daughter, Annabella (who was born and died in 1964). The elder son, James David Drummond, styled Viscount Strathallan (born 24 Oct, 1965), now succeeds to the peerages. 

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